Diruta, Girolamo
(1554–1610)
GIROLAMO DIRUTADIRUTA, GIROLAMOGIROLAMO DIRUTA [* ca. 1554-† after 1610] Girolamo Diruta felt, reasonably, that performers should understand the theoretical underpinnings of the music which they performed. Thus Il transilvano (1593 and 1609), a work addressed to organists, includes a substantial body of contrapuntal studies organized according to individual categories or species and thus comprised an early phase of a pedagogical tradition which would come to dominate contrapuntal instruction in…